Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1995, 10:31 PM CST for Marshall County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 27, 1995, 10:31 PM CST (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 1995, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KHSV 280431 RRA SVRHSV ALC095-280530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 1031 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CST ... IN NORTH ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY AT 1029 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT HUNTSVILLE INDICATED A POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SNEAD IN BLOUNT COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL PASS BETWEEN DOUGLAS AND HORTON IN SOUTH MARSHALL COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 8:48 PM CST, 1 hour 43 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-280450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 847 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 3 AM... AT 845 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INTO LAMAR COUNTY. ONE VERY STRONG STORM WAS MOVING ACROSS THE STATE LINE INTO WESTERN LAMAR COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF SULLIGENT...WHILE ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF VERNON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING COMMUNITIES IN LAMAR COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES TO ONE HOUR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...JUST WEST OF PICKENS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST PICKENS COUNTY WEST OF ALICEVILLE DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERICAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 9:03 PM CST, 1 hour 28 minutes before
ALZ036-280505- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 903 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA INCLUDING COOSA COUNTY UNTIL 3 AM... AT 845 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND RAIN SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING PICKENS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL REACH COOSA COUNTY IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 9:06 PM CST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
ALZ036-280505- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MONTGOMERY AL 903 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA INCLUDING COOSA COUNTY UNTIL 3 AM... AT 845 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND RAIN SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING PICKENS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL REACH COOSA COUNTY IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 9:08 PM CST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-280410- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 908 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST ALABAMA THIS EVENING... AT 805 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN MARION COUNTY...NEAR HAMILTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING CENTRAL AND EASTERN MARION COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. PERSONS IN MARION COUNTY IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVSION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 9:47 PM CST, 44 minutes before
ALZ011>029-031>035-039-280450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 947 PM CST FRI JAN 27 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA UNTIL 3 AM... AT 845 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INTO LAMAR COUNTY. ONE VERY STRONG STORM WAS MOVING ACROSS THE STATE LINE INTO WESTERN LAMAR COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF SULLIGENT...WHILE ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF VERNON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE AFFECTING COMMUNITIES IN LAMAR COUNTY DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES TO ONE HOUR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...JUST WEST OF PICKENS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST PICKENS COUNTY WEST OF ALICEVILLE DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR COMMERICAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 27, 10:04 PM CST, 27 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 35 min |
| Jan 27, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 60 min |
| Jan 28, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 69 min |
| Jan 28, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 62 min |
| Jan 28, 5:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 24 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.